BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 10/16/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> >> GPLv3 makes it clear it doesn't remove existing consumer rights (as if
> >> any copyright license could do that) by adding "This License
> >> acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by
> >> copyright law."
> >
> > The term "fair use" is unique to the United States; a similar
> > principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law
> > jurisdictions.
>
> Hence the "or other equivalent"....

Heck, but "first sale" is NOT equivalent to "fair use" or "fair
dealing" (a kind of equivalent to "fair use").

>
> > But it has really nothing to do with "first sale" (a similar
> > principle, "copyright exhaustion" rule, exists in the EU).
> >
> > Professor Lee Hollaar (who worked on Internet, copyright, and patent
> > issues as a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Fellow) has commented
> > regarding GPLv3 wording (and apparently his comments were simply
> > dismissed from consideration by RMS Eben & Co.)
>
> Despite the GPLv3 quote I specifically gave?

See above. Then reread his comments again and recheck
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

regards,
alexander.

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